Have we slowed tempo this year?

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It Seems to me we have slowed the tempo a little this year vs last year. We still play fast at times, but the number of series/plays we’ve run at lightening speed seems to be a little less this year.

The fake injuries seem way less this year as well.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?
 
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Yes, we have. And this is a wonderful case of "the coach coaching the coaches."

Earlier in the season, when we slowed the pace, we also lowered the urgency. That's what almost came back to bite us in the Florida game.

But then Heup coached his coordinators in how to keep the urgency while slowing the tempo. And the coordinators executed that marvelously in the 2nd half of both the LSU and Bama games.

Marrying super-aggressive play-calling with nice, slow, methodical clock control is not a natural fit. It takes coaching.

Thank God daily for Josh Heupel.

Go Vols!
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Yes, we have. And this is a wonderful case of "the coach coaching the coaches."

Earlier in the season, when we slowed the pace, we also lowered the urgency. That's what almost came back to bite us in the Florida game.

But then Heup coached his coordinators in how to keep the urgency while slowing the tempo. And we did that marvelously in the 2nd half of both the LSU and Bama games.

Marrying super-aggressive play-calling with nice, slow, methodical clock control is not a natural fit. It takes coaching.

Thank God daily for Josh Heupel.

Go Vols!
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It’s good to see us being able to slow down and sustain drives successfully since Florida. That has been key to the games we have played since then. It makes things easier on our defense too later in the game.

The key of course is the word sustain. Going 3-and-out and having to put the defense back in play when we tried it the Florida game I think was a contributing factor to making that defensive performance look worse than it deserved.

It also sparked a bunch of criticism about us abandoning our normal effective offense. Notice we haven’t seen that same criticism now that the offense is doing the same thing later in the game, but now they are converting first downs. Same plan, better execution.
 
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They've really dialed the offense in this year compared to last. Curious to see what Milton can do next year with 3 years in the system. If the game has slowed down for him mentally and he can connect the sky's the limit, next year could be phenomenal too.
 
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I never thought the offense would work slow but CJH and co have developed a way to make it work creating another layer teams have to defend.
 
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CR-vol said:
They've really dialed the offense in this year compared to last. Curious to see what Milton can do next year with 3 years in the system. If the game slows for him and he can connect the sky's the limit, next year could be phenomenal too.
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With his arm talent the ability to stretch the field is next level if he continues to develop and gain confidence
 
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Dudleys87 said:
With his arm talent the ability to stretch the field is next level if he continues to develop and gain confidence
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Last year we went to the first game of the season it was crazy during warm-ups the throws that guy was making. Looked like 70 yards in the air.
 
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CR-vol said:
They've really dialed the offense in this year compared to last. Curious to see what Milton can do next year with 3 years in the system. If the game has slowed down for him mentally and he can connect the sky's the limit, next year could be phenomenal too.
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He has the potential to be better than HH. IF everything comes together for him.
 
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Having the ability and option to go slow when the situation calls for it just increases the amount to things the opposing DC has to prepare for. Last year’s offense was sort of one dimensional, now we have added an additional wrinkle. Heupel used to be know as a one trick pony. The last few games he has brought out shovel passes, I formations, speed options, and one change up after another. The opposition has to be ready for all of them which then makes the tempo extra dangerous when we deploy it. The man is looking like an Offensive genius this season
 
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YankeeVol said:
He has the potential to be better than HH. IF everything comes together for him.
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Agree that he can be great. Anything can happen but given that he stuck around, that the QBs seem to have a great relationship, and he’s valued in the locker room, I have to suspect he’s been working diligently.

Since pretty much our whole team has gotten better under this staff, he probably is a lot better than he was at the start of last season. Especially under Heupel who was an elite QB himself, and coached up other elite QBs if anyone can help him identify and fix his issues that guy.

Heupel also brought him in, so he obviously saw potential for what he wanted to do with the offense in him. So I think there’s a ton of reasons to be optimistic.
 
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Last year their slow game was horrid. I would assume because of that they tried their best to run it as little as possible.

This year their slow game is just fine. Because of this coach can run fast or slow depending on the game………..thus we have seen more of the slow game.

Not more than the fast paced…….but more than we did last year.
 
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Mustng959 said:
We are still fast to the line of scrimmage to prevent the defense substituting but then we let the clock run down some to survey the defensive alignment in my opinion.
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You are correct sir. This is the exact same way I noticed as well, not allowing the defense to substitute keeps a tired D on the field as well as us to set up mismatches without the right personnel on the field.
 
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hixsonvol said:
It Seems to me we have slowed the tempo a little this year vs last year. We still play fast at times, but the number of series/plays we’ve run at lightening speed seems to be a little less this year.

The fake injuries seem way less this year as well.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?
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I have noticed this, especially when we get a lead, I watched the Tn Bama game again, when we got up 28 to 10 we run the play clock down much more than before we got the lead. We were snapping at around 27 seconds on the play clock, after the lead it was averaging around 17 seconds on the play clock. We went back to up tempo after Bama got back into the game. Our offense plays much better up tempo. I really believe had we kept going up tempo when we got the 28 to 10 lead, I believe it was 10 we would have blown Bama out of the game. We did the same thing at Fla and allowed them back in the game. With all this said, I am still all in with Hype and the vols, just wished when we are playing a pretty good team he would stay wide open and up tempo
 
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hixsonvol said:
It Seems to me we have slowed the tempo a little this year vs last year. We still play fast at times, but the number of series/plays we’ve run at lightening speed seems to be a little less this year.

The fake injuries seem way less this year as well.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?
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It seems they go fast and then don't go fast. The tempo changes. And that has to put a strain on a defense. So, it's probably by design. Football version of the chinese water torture.

Also, it could be determined by the match-ups.
 
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They slow the tempo when it serves a strategic purpose in their favor. This is something they didn't do last year.
 
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If we put on much more steam we may explode. Wait..is that what happened at the end of the game last week?
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Yes, we have. And this is a wonderful case of "the coach coaching the coaches."

Earlier in the season, when we slowed the pace, we also lowered the urgency. That's what almost came back to bite us in the Florida game.

But then Heup coached his coordinators in how to keep the urgency while slowing the tempo. And the coordinators executed that marvelously in the 2nd half of both the LSU and Bama games.

Marrying super-aggressive play-calling with nice, slow, methodical clock control is not a natural fit. It takes coaching.

Thank God daily for Josh Heupel.

Go Vols!
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As a Tennessee fan, I have a natural affinity for Peyton Manning. I absolutely love the Manning Cast of MNF. If you haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend it. Peyton is not only renowned for being "one of the" best QB's ever, it his also for his understanding of the entire game. I would say he is of the Hawking/Einstein (Physics) level in comprehension of football. Paul Brownish.

I honestly think CJH understands as much or perhaps more than Peyton. I would venture to say that CJH legitimately knew more about the game after a year with Mike Leach at OU than Butch Jones knew at Tennessee in year three. The man is smart, innovative and creates the best culture for a college football team.

I couldn't agree more. We are truly blessed.
 
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When the game situation has dictated it we have. We are still just as fast early in games and in games like vs Bama where we were in a shootout. We still struggle more than I'd like when we slow down. I honestly wish we'd just keep the gas floored. The clock doesn't matter when you score every possession.
 
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